Thanks everyone for your kind help!
Since I am setting this chroot environment as an experimental area
(maybe I'll install sid there), security is not a big concern.
Therefore I used Andreas' solution: modify /etc/init.d/sysklogd to
SYSLOGD='/var/chroot/dev/log'
and restart syslogd.
I am goin
On Sat, 31 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:23:29AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > [snip paranoid ravings]
> Holy s**t you really are nuts.
If this is serious, I second your opinion.
Unfortunately, being totally, completely, and absolutely unhinged must
be o
retitle 114398 ITP: dbtcp -- A client for the MS Windows ODBC proxy server
thanks
[Please reply to me, Cc'ing the list, as per the M-F-T header].
Hi all!
Just a quick note to say that I've packaged up dbtcp, and am thus taking
over the RFA (#114398). It was pretty fun to package - a PHP4 module
t
On 31 May 2003, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> [snip]
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
I needed that. Thanks for the laugh. Made my day.
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags.
> > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6 will
> > search for matching bugs.
> Since we're using bu
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags.
> > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6 will
> > search for matching bugs.
>
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Changes:
>> tkdiff (1:3.08-4) unstable; urgency=low
>> .
>>* lintian fixes
>
> Issues that lintian reports are, in most cases, bugs. Bugs that you
> have fixed should be explicitly described in t
|| On Mon, 19 May 2003 14:01:29 -0700
|| Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
bn> reopen 193287
bn> reopen 193286
bn> thanks
bn> Marco Presi (Zufus) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Format: 1.7
>> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:30:39 +0200
>
|| On Tue, 20 May 2003 00:18:34 -0500 (CDT)
|| Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ah> On Mon, 19 May 2003, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> reopen 193287
>> reopen 193286
>> thanks
>> > .
>> >* Closes: #193287
>> >* Closes: #193286
Hi,
i'll be in Helsinki/Finnland for the whole of next week (probably longer)
to work. Nevertheless i'd like to meet up with other Debian enthusiasts
if time permits for having a Beer (Seems to be kind of expensive according
to www.alko.fi), Keysigning, Lunch etc ...
I'll be reachable on my mobi
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:16:36AM +0200, Marco Presi wrote:
> || On Mon, 19 May 2003 14:01:29 -0700
> || Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Changes:
> >> pointless (0.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
> >> .
> >> * Closes: #193287
> >> * Closes: #193286
>
>
|| On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:21:41 +0200
|| "Marco Presi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|| On Tue, 20 May 2003 00:18:34 -0500 (CDT)
|| Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
mp> I had applied (the right) patches suggested in bug reports.. So
what do
mp> you mean?
Sorry, now I saw
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:23:29AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Happy un-halloween. The truth is out there -- apt-get into it, local
> shadow repositories potentially excepted.
You know, I was just saying on #debian-devel within the past couple of
days how I missed Karl Hegbloom's psychotical
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 08:17:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Surely porters can already recognize architecture-specific issues based
> on, let's say, the packages which fail to build on their architecture
> (which seems to make up at least 90% of porting bugs)?
Uh, sure. But that's not the poin
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
>
> > I don't see any objection to symlinking if both packages are created of
> > the same sourcepackage, the second one depends on =first-package-version
> > and (natur
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-01
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libgtksourceview1.0-0
Version : 0.2.1
Upstream Author : Gustavo Girldez
Paolo Maggi
Jeroen Zwartepoorte
Mikael Hermansson
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:06:40PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> I've restored Galeon on pila to its former 1.2.x glory. A few packages
> (galeon, galeon-common, mozilla-browser, mozilla-psm, libnss3, libnspr4)
> are now on hold: don't touch them (and watch apt quietly playing with
> th
Marco Presi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[changelog abuse]
> Could you send me more information?
Developer's reference - 6.3 Best practices for debian/changelog
|
| * Closes: #12345, #12346, #15432
|
| Where's the description? If you can't think of a descriptive
| message, start by ins
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:07:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> [stuff utterly irrelevant to -devel]
Please ignore the parent post; somehow, mutt managed to take a mail sent
to 'oldk, bhat', and reply to -devel. *shrug*.
Sorry,
Daniel
--
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM
reopen 193497
thanks
Hi,
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Changes:
> svtools (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
> .
>* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
Meep. No.
Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right way[tm].
That form is only acceptable for "New upstream version, pleas
* Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030601 13:59]:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:01:37PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> > MGT is much more capable than gnome-terminal, I prefer the power of MGT
> > over gnome-terminal, and if no-one else will step in, I'd be willing to
> > maintain MGT myself.
>
>
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030530 19:45]:
> What do you mean "consistent concept overall"? Using the freedesktop
> standards makes things more consistent, not less.
Then please point to a documentation, how to overwrite the menus
installed with the packages as admin or other things like
Well okay, granted ... but the locale would almost always be
explicitly set, and wouldn't change when eg the lat/long are modified.
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
>> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags.
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian
* Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030530 20:50]:
> > I think making things consistent needs us to write them on our own,
> > taking upstream entries as suggestions. In my eyes it is just the same
> > as with the directories software is installed into. There are just too
> > many ways to do it an
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 15:33:29 +0100
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Since we're using bug tags for such specific things now wouldn't it make
> >> sense to add per architecture tags so one can search via
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/tag:hppa
> >> for hppa related issues (not that there ar
Hi,
James Troup wrote:
> I don't; it's silly. At best you'll get an architecture tag for the
> arch that the buildd maintainer reported the bug on, but that's it.
> An inaccurate architecture tag is worse than useless, it's misleading.
> Just parse wanna-build's failed logs; it's trivial.
Sure,
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure, but the architecture tags can be used n ot only for buildd
> failures?
No, that's my point, IMO they shouldn't be used _at all_ for FTBFS
bugs, because they'd be useless and misleading - and if these tags are
available people will try to use them
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> [ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject.
> Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ]
>
>Announcing the "Quantian Scientific Computing Environment"
While I like any project which tries
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:33:29PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> I don't; it's silly. At best you'll get an architecture tag for the
> arch that the buildd maintainer reported the bug on, but that's it.
> An inaccurate architecture tag is worse than useless, it's misleading.
> Just parse wanna-buil
Hi,
I don't want to submit a bug since the last time this was discussed it
degenerated into a flamewar and from the text I quote below it seems
it's an emotionally overloaded issue for you.
Installing tetex-bin brings up this:
[!] Configuring Tetex-bin
Now we can generate texmf.cnf,
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags.
> > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6 will
> > search for matching bugs.
>
Sorry for the late answer.. you will see in a minute why I took some more
time to answer on this.
> > 1.- Copyright issues, these impact on quite a number of
> > astronomical-related packages.
> >
> > I made the decision of breaking the star catalogs into packages
> > into non-free but others
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
>
> Meep. No.
>
> Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right way[tm]. That
> form is only acceptable for "New upstream version, please package it"
> like bugs.
With
qOn Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> > [ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject.
> > Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ]
> >
> > Announcing the "Quanti
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>
> I thinks that the long-asked by i18n maintainers 'translation' tag should
> probably be added too. It helps boths translators and maintainers since it
> introduces a way to manage i18n/l10n related bugs (which ar
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Issues that lintian reports are, in most cases, bugs. Bugs that you
>> have fixed should be explicitly described in the changelog. After all,
>> lintian reports many different types of bugs; how can we guess
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Is this a new sport in #d-d or something like that? I read that entry
> as "the new upstream version fixes the problem reported in #193497",
> and looking at the BTS that is exactly its meaning.
The point being made is that "#193497 has be
Hi,
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>
> > >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
> >
> > Meep. No.
> >
> > Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right way[tm]. That
> > form is only acceptable for "New upstream v
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>
> > >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
> >
> > Meep. No.
> >
> > Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right way[tm]. That
> > form is only acceptable f
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 10:10, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030530 19:45]:
> > What do you mean "consistent concept overall"? Using the freedesktop
> > standards makes things more consistent, not less.
>
> Then please point to a documentation, how to overwrite the
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:33:29PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> >> Since we're using bug tags for such specific things now wouldn't it make
> >> sense to add per architecture tags so one can search via
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/tag:hppa
> >> for hppa related issues (not that there are any of cour
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Hi all!
I build two packages converting the RPM provided by ATI for their RADEON
video cards to a binary package with the XFree module, libGL and some
tools and a source package for building a kernel module with make-kpkg.
These packages are very simila
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Otavio,
Hello Fabio,
> just for pure curiosity, when do you expect to have the full system
> integrated within Debian?
I think the code need some otimization and one missing feature to
fallback language codes. After this, in IMHO, the syst
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:29:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> retitle 114398 ITP: dbtcp -- A client for the MS Windows ODBC proxy server
> thanks
> [Please reply to me, Cc'ing the list, as per the M-F-T header].
> Hi all!
> Just a quick note to say that I've packaged up dbtcp, and am thus takin
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030601 19:05]:
> > Then please point to a documentation, how to overwrite the menus
> > installed with the packages as admin or other things like this.
>
> Basically you would edit the system .menu file, say
> /etc/menus/applications.menu.
>
> http://www.freed
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:47:29PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:33:29PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > >> Since we're using bug tags for such specific things now wouldn't it make
> > >> sense to add per architecture tags so one can search via
> > >> http://bugs.debian.o
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi Otavio,
>
> Hello Fabio,
>
> > just for pure curiosity, when do you expect to have the full system
> > integrated within Debian?
>
> I think the code need some otimization and one missing featu
On Sunday 01 June 2003 20:02, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> It is related. Heck, this specification even gives in the example the
> Icon as .png-file. While using .xpm-only for menus is really
> long-lasting standard, with no reason to stop this...
One day, SVG icons might be used, so there has to be
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 19:05]:
> FWIW, my policy has become to only politely ask maintainers in private
> to use more verbose "New upstream version" changelog entries in the
> future, because it seems to be a religious issue for some.
That's certainly the right policy.
Cheers
* Rene Engelhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 18:50]:
> Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >
> > > >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
> > >
> > > Meep. No.
> > >
> > > Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 06:54:46PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 17:52, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg02071.html
> >
> > Could you be so kind as to summarize thoses concerns ?
>
> The message above is fairly
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 14:02, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030601 19:05]:
> > > Then please point to a documentation, how to overwrite the menus
> > > installed with the packages as admin or other things like this.
> >
> > Basically you would edit the system .menu
Package: wnpp
Because I no longer use them myself I am looking for someone to take
over the below packages. (The second, binutils-sparc, exists only to
service the first and is a trivial modification of binutils-avr, so I
list them together.)
I'm not swizzling the Maintainer: field to QA because
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>>
>> > >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
>
>> Is this a new sport in #d-d or something like that? I read that
>> ent
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:39:38AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >>
> >> > >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497)
> >
Hi,
> However, it really might be better to put a longer statement into
> changelog. _But_ it's certainly much worse to re-open a really closed
> bug than to make a too short changelog entry. (BTW: You should really
a wrongly closed... (whithout explanation what the fix was; the
new upstream vers
On Sat, May 31, 2003, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > Raptor is a clone of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a classic shoot'em-up
> > game.
>
> Calling the package Raptor, for a clone of Raptor: Call of the Shadows
> could get confusing.
True. I talked to upstream about it and he agreed to change the
n
Hi,
While digging around in the calendar-files at infodrom.org I suddenly
realized that Debian will have it's 10th birthday at August, 16th
(according to the calendar.infodrom.debian file at
http://www.infodrom.org/projects/calendar/)
Are there any parties planned already? ;)
- Alexander
pgpvx
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 08:59:58PM +0200, Josef Spillner wrote:
> One day, SVG icons might be used, so there has to be some kind of flexibility.
> It would be nice to work towards collaboration with freedesktop.org, probably
> a fallback mechanism can be implemented.
> I personally do not want to
At 7:57 am, Monday, June 2 2003, Herbert Xu mumbled:
> So what? The *Debian* changelog is for Debian changes only. It's not there
> for listing upstream changes, copyright information, or who your favourite
> TV personality is.
>
And if this new upstream release deals with a bug filed in the BT
Hi,
At Mon, 2 Jun 2003 03:24:39 +0200,
Alexander Neumann wrote:
> Are there any parties planned already? ;)
Debian JP Project, consists of Debian developers/users in Japan, are
planning 'Debian 10th anniversary party' at Tokyo on Aug 15 midnight.
We'll send a article about this party to DWN when
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:34:55PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030530 20:50]:
> > > I think making things consistent needs us to write them on our own,
> > > taking upstream entries as suggestions. In my eyes it is just the same
> > > as with the directories
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:54, Chris Cheney wrote:
> SVG icons are the only decent long term solution once screens go to
> 200dpi+ those tiny icons will be worthless, of course you can always
> double or triple the size of fixed size icons automatically but they
> won't look very good. Microsoft is push
/me coughs
;)
Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason
to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones
in the way they are done due to the fact the XFree ones had no 3d
acceleration at all and that it was illegal to distribute nvidia's
binaries directly. A
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:14, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At Mon, 2 Jun 2003 03:24:39 +0200,
> Alexander Neumann wrote:
> > Are there any parties planned already? ;)
>
> Debian JP Project, consists of Debian developers/users in Japan, are
> planning 'Debian 10th anniversary party' at Tokyo on Aug 15 midni
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Have you use this version for testing?
>
> To be hounest no i didn't test it since i personally don't like to use
> other language than english on my computers. I was only curious about the
> integration status since i like to see big projects
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 15:58, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I have already answered about i18n.
If you're referring to extracting the i18n information from .desktop
files; ok, that's a first step. But then we have an ugly situation
where if someone wants to fix a Debian menu entry, they have to know
t
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason
> to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones
> in the way they are done due to the fact the XFree ones had no 3d
> acceleration at al
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:06, Russell Coker wrote:
> However if an icon looks good at 100dpi then surely when doubled it should
> look just as good at 200gpi.
One thing to consider as well is that while in the past X11 was the only
windowing system available, there are a few others out there now.
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:22, Chris Cheney wrote:
> This was done as a request by someone prior to my maintainence of KDE,
> long ago KDE had its own separate Debian submenu as well. Many people
> seem to think the way it is done currently is better than the separate
> Debian sub-menu. Also, rippin
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